Clyton

Connection Security

• Connections to the mail server can be secured with SSL/TLS encryption.  This prevents an eavesdropper from reading your mail.
• The mail server password is verified without being transmitted, preventing an eavesdropper from intercepting it.
• Supports S/MIME, DKIM, and DomainKeys signing and verification.  This ensures that an email has not been tampered with, and that the sender has not been forged.
• Supports S/MIME encryption.

Internal Security

• All passwords are internally encrypted to ensure that they cannot be exposed, even to a user with admin rights.
• Stored messages can be encrypted to prevent them from being read by programs or persons who have access to the file system.
• Accounts can be password protected to prevent mail from being read or composed even if physical access to the computer is compromised.
• The Address Book can be password protected.
• Sensitive messages can be shredded in such a way that no forensic recovery is possible.

Virus Security

• Until permitted, HTML email is restricted from running scripts, loading embedded objects, and downloading media.  Malware cannot infect the computer simply by viewing an email.
• The Address Book is encrypted to prevent malware from spreading to your contacts.
• You are warned before opening potentially dangerous attachments.
• Clyton is compatible with third-party anti-virus email scanners.

Blacklisting

• DNSBL blacklist testing is fully supported.  Spamhaus is the recommended blacklist, as it is very high quality and well maintained.
• Email that is suspicious but not obviously spam is quarantined for 24 hours, then retested.  This greatly improves the effectiveness of blacklisting because it prevents spam from slipping through before the blacklist has a chance to notice.
• Every server that the email is routed through is tested for blacklisting.
• Every hyperlink in the email body is tested for blacklisting.

Rules

• There are 21 stock rules that help identify spam.
• A table with 400 custom rules comes pre-configured to identify spam.  For example, an email can be penalized for having a hyperlink to a certain type of file, such as an EXE.  You can add your own rules to this table.

Curses

• A "Curse" is a short phrase that adds a penalty to an email's spam score.  "Viagra" and "get rich quick" are examples.
• Over 1350 curses are preconfigured.  You can easily add your own curses as well.
• Clyton can recognize many character substitutions when detecting curses.  For example, substituting "@" for A or "!" for I or L will not fool Clyton.

• Clyton can be installed to a USB flash drive (a.k.a. thumb drive, memory stick).  This allows you to run Clyton from any computer.
• Built-in address book supports portraits, custom fields, and import/export.
• Send personalized mass mail to a filtered set of address book contacts.
• Supports text search in a single folder or globally.
• Whitelisting prevents false positives by the spam engine.  Address book contacts and whitelisted senders are never treated as spam.  Entire domains can be whitelisted.  Anyone you send an email to is automatically whitelisted.
• Allows full control over the compose/reply/forward templates.  This is especially useful for putting your business details below the signature.
• Message drag & drop supported.
• Attachment viewer supports a wide variety of image formats, HTML, PDF, CSV, and MIME.  Images can be zoomed and rotated.
• Multithreaded design keeps the user interface responsive.  Receiving, sending, and spam checking are performed in the background by worker threads.
• Compose email formatted in HTML with a powerful editor.  Includes spell-checking.
• Supports both POP3 and IMAP4 mail server protocols.  Supports IMAP4 synchronization.

• When email is automatically put in the Spam folder, headers are added that explain exactly why the email was penalized.  This makes it easy to adjust the spam settings and eliminate false positives.
• Messages can be organized in folders and color coded.
• Multiple messages can be selected with the Shift and Ctrl keys.  The following features can operate on multiple messages:  Delete, Forward, Redirect, Save, Shred, Drag & Drop, and Color Coding.
• Old messages can be automatically deleted (by age or count) from the Trash and Spam folders.  This prevents the hard drive from filling up with old emails.
• Supports OAuth authentication for Gmail and Microsoft.
• Attachments can be automatically included in newly composed messages.  This is great if you have a vCard.
• Reminds of birthdays and anniversaries.
• Skinnable, zoomable, highly configurable user interface.
• It is possible to automatically insert a random famous quote below your signature.
• Most of Gammadyne Mailer's G-Merge language is supported in templates, mass mailings, and an Incoming Script.  The Incoming Script runs each time an email is received.  It can modify messages, move them to different folders, control deletion, autorespond, influence spam checking, and much more.